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To Work With Lighting Settings

Set a Drawing to Photometric Lighting

    Choose one of the following:

  • To enable International lighting units, click Visualize tab Lights panel Lighting Units drop-down International Lighting Units. Find
  • To enable American lighting units, click Visualize tab Lights panel Lighting Units drop-down American Lighting Units. Find

Starting with AutoCAD 2016-based products, the renderer calculates all standard lights as photometric lights. It is recommended to update all standard lights in a scene to photometric lights. Starting with AutoCAD 2017-based products, you can no longer set a drawing to standard lighting.

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